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A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass

A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass

Amy Lowell

Amy Lowell’s A Dome of Many‑Coloured Glass is a miscellany of lyrical poems that opens with an exuberant…

Poems by Emily Dickinson, Series One

Poems by Emily Dickinson, Series One

Emily Dickinson

This volume gathers the first series of Emily Dickinson’s poems, presenting them largely as they appeared in…

Cover of Rainbow gold; Poems Old and New Selected for Boys and Girls

Rainbow gold; Poems Old and New Selected for Boys and Girls

This volume is a compact anthology that gathers together a wide range of English‑language poems, from the…

The California Birthday Book Prose and Poetical Selections from the Writings of Living California Authors with a Brief Biographical Sketch of each

The California Birthday Book Prose and Poetical Selections from the Writings of Living California Authors with a Brief Biographical Sketch of each

The California Birthday Book is a curated anthology that gathers prose and poetry from living California…

Cover of The poems of Edgar Allan Poe

The poems of Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe

Cover of Hindu literature : Comprising The Book of good counsels, Nala and Damayanti, The Ramayana, and Sakoontala

Hindu literature : Comprising The Book of good counsels, Nala and Damayanti, The Ramayana, and Sakoontala

Toru; Kālidāsa; Valmiki Dutt

This volume is a nineteenth‑century English rendering of several celebrated Sanskrit works, gathered under…

La Légende des Siècles

La Légende des Siècles

Victor Hugo

La Légende des Siècles is Victor Hugo’s ambitious poetic project, conceived as a “cyclical work” that seeks…

Cover of The Philosophy of Fine Art, volume 4 (of 4) Hegel's Aesthetik

The Philosophy of Fine Art, volume 4 (of 4) Hegel's Aesthetik

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The fourth volume of Hegel’s Aesthetik is a systematic treatise that begins with a dense comparison of poetry…

Bulchevy's Book of English Verse

Bulchevy's Book of English Verse

Bulchevy’s Book of English Verse is an ambitious anthology that seeks to span the whole sweep of English…

Coleridge's Ancient Mariner and Select Poems

Coleridge's Ancient Mariner and Select Poems

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

This volume gathers the poems of Samuel Taylor Coleridge as they appear in the Globe edition edited by J.

Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant Household Edition

Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant Household Edition

William Cullen Bryant

The volume is a collected edition of the poetical works of William Cullen Bryant, the 19th‑century American…

Cover of Are Women People? A Book of Rhymes for Suffrage Times

Are Women People? A Book of Rhymes for Suffrage Times

Alice Duer Miller

Alice Duer Miller’s Are Women People? A Book of Rhymes for Suffrage Times is a polemical poetry collection…

Venus and Adonis

Venus and Adonis

William Shakespeare

The work is a poetic dramatization of the mythic love‑triangle between the Roman goddess Venus and the Greek…

Poems You Ought to Know

Poems You Ought to Know

Elia Wilkinson Peattie

The volume presents a broad, eclectic anthology of English‑language verse, assembled under the premise that…

Cover of Late Lyrics and Earlier, With Many Other Verses

Late Lyrics and Earlier, With Many Other Verses

Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy’s Late Lyrics and Earlier, With Many Other Verses is a self‑curated anthology that gathers poems…

The Extant Odes of Pindar Translated with Introduction and Short Notes by Ernest Myers

The Extant Odes of Pindar Translated with Introduction and Short Notes by Ernest Myers

Pindar

The Extant Odes of Pindar presents the surviving triumphal poems of the 5th‑century BCE Theban lyricist,…

The Literature of Ecstasy

The Literature of Ecstasy

Albert Mordell

Albert Mordell’s The Literature of Ecstasy is a scholarly treatise that re‑examines the very definition of…

Poems

Poems

Matilda Betham

Matilda Betham’s Poems opens as a sprawling anthology, presenting a litany of titled pieces that range from…

Cover of The Newcastle Song Book; or, Tyne-Side Songster
 Being a Collection of Comic and Satirical Songs, Descriptive of Eccentric Characters, and the Manners and Customs of a Portion of the Labouring Population of Newcastle and the Neighbourhood

The Newcastle Song Book; or, Tyne-Side Songster Being a Collection of Comic and Satirical Songs, Descriptive of Eccentric Characters, and the Manners and Customs of a Portion of the Labouring Population of Newcastle and the Neighbourhood

Various

Cover of Come Hither: A Collection of Rhymes and Poems for the Young of All Ages

Come Hither: A Collection of Rhymes and Poems for the Young of All Ages

The volume opens with a wandering boy’s vivid recollection of a solitary stone house perched in a hollow, its…

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844

Various

Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 55, No. 341 (March 1844) is a nineteenth‑century periodical that opens…

The Little Gleaner, Vol. X. A Monthly Magazine for the Young

The Little Gleaner, Vol. X. A Monthly Magazine for the Young

Various

The Little Gleaner, Vol. X is a devotional periodical aimed at young readers, compiled from a variety of…

Poésies de Charles d'Orléans

Poésies de Charles d'Orléans

d'Orléans Charles

Ce volume rassemble les poésies de Charles d’Orléans, prince‑poète du XVe siècle, présentées avec une…

The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5

The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5

Edmund Spenser

This volume gathers a handful of Edmund Spenser’s lesser‑known poems that were scattered in manuscript and…